Tag: Fire

On Wednesday the 21st of June, Camden Council removed a panel from the Burnham tower, just one of five on Fellows Road, Swiss Cottage. This action comes a week after the tragedy at Grenfell Tower of which the 24-story tower block caught fire leaving – at time of writing, 58 dead. Camden Council told residents...

In the early hours of Wednesday, the 14th June a fire broke out on the 4th floor of Grenfell Tower. The 24-storey, 127 flat, 600 (approx.) occupant tower is now a haunting shell of what it once was. The last flames went out on the following Thursday, over 24 hours after the fire first started....

On Friday the 16th, 3 days after the hellish fire of Grenfell Tower’s, my colleague Hannah Rose-Burns and I travelled to Latimer Road. I had already braced myself for a breadth and extremity of emotion in the community. It was not until I took the tentative steps from the tube station, into the midst of...